Police Storm Campuses In Peru Capital

February 14, 1987|United Press International

LIMA, Peru -- Heavily armed police stormed four university campuses early Friday and found left-wing rebel arsenals, bomb factories and rebel hideouts, the government said. Four people were reported injured.

The Interior Ministry announced the raids in a brief statement that said police found that rebels used the universities ``to carry out the planning of terrorist activities.``

At the huge San Marcos university, two police officers and a student were injured during a gunbattle, said an Interior Ministry official who asked not to be identified.

A fourth person was injured during the storming of the Guzman y Valle de la Cantuta University, he said. ``The university cloisters have been used to carry out the planning of terrorist activities as well as for the fabrication of explosives (and) storage of armament,`` the statement said.

The Interior Ministry official said soldiers sealed off the universities during a nightly 1-to-5 a.m. curfew while some 5,000 police officers stormed the buildings.

Police found weapons, bombs, rebel propaganda and falsified identity papers, he said. Some of the material had been rigged with booby traps, he added.